Chesterfield have appointed Roy McFarland as their new manager in succession to Dave Rushbury.

The former Cambridge, Bolton, Derby and Bradford boss has been out of management since April last year when he left Torquay.

Rushbury resigned last month after a run of bad results left the Spireites in relegation trouble, although they secured their Second Division status with a draw on the final day of the season at Blackpool.

McFarland, 55, has signed a two-year contract and Lee Richardson stays on as his assistant.

McFarland said: "Hopefully I can bring a little bit of success here and success would be to have achieved a more comfortable position in the Second Division at the end of next season.

"What's obvious is that there's not much money and no room to manoeuvre but hopefully we can manoeuvre in terms of bringing in players by whatever means."